With a wide range of NCS tools, you get help to analyse existing colours, find inspiration, select the right colours and create colour combinations. Thanks to the construction of the NCS Notation there are countless ways to increase your creativity during your design process.
Whether you work online, or with physical items or on a more conceptual level, using NCS will take the stress out of how you use colour. The ultimate goal; giving you more time to focus on what you do best - creating.
Design Online
NCS Navigator was created to enable quick, reliable, and versatile colour use. A free online appliction, it features a host of functions for the creative. For starters it's got the full 1,950 NCS Original colours which can be explored in 2D or 3D. Plus, for each of these colours Navigator gives you conversion values to CMYK, RGB or Lab for print. So each of the 1,950 colours can be inputted into your favoured design application. Best of all is the number of ways you can quickly develop colour combinations based on either similarities or methods of your own choosing.
Colour Trend Information
The London-based trend forecasting studio, Global Color Research has been an NCS Partner for some time now. Its trend forecasts are renowned across the design and architecture industry for incredible insight into future market conditions. It creates its bi-annual trend guide Mix Trends, using the NCS System to develop its colours and continues its use of NCS into its quarterly design and architecture magazine, Mix.
The upshot for you the creator is that it now takes less time to take Mix trends from the pages of the forecasts and into your own studio. So whether you want your trend information two years in advance or more developed direction you can be guaranteed that the reliability of NCS is present in this tricky but vital area of modern design practice.
Items to enhance your design process
NCS Album has everything a designer could want. Removable swatches, large format, airy display and works like a charm.
NCS Atlas is perfect for client visits. Intuitive design, great with NCS Similarities and with the full range of NCS 1950 Original colours displayed as they should be.
NCS Block has two options for the designer. Hue or Nuance arranged, both formats have something to offer, not to mention its hand mini-fan format making it perfect for quick site visits.
Colour Masks may seem simple at first but their simplicity is deceptive. When it comes to showing clients or investors the beauty of a colour in its own right, there's nothing to touch it.
Industrial, product designers, architects, graphic artists, branding and advertisers... all sectors which begged us for NCS Glossy. The same 1,950 colours but this time given a popping glossy finish.
Exterior colouring is made easy with NCS Exterior. This unique collection of colours is formulated for peace of mind in the exterior colouring environment. It'll make clients yours for life.
Education
Some say that you're only as good as your tools will allow and that our minds are the most powerful tool we have. So sharpen up your mind with the NCS Basic Colour Course, the Exterior Colour Design Workshop or give spaces and concepts a little zing with the Interior Colour Design programme.